No more furtive drinking in Vancouver parks. On Wednesday, the Vancouver Park Board announced drinking will be legal in 22 parks from July 12 to Oct. 11 as part of a pilot program. The board said the ...

Portland Loos have been placed in Marshall Community Park in Vancouver to replace the portable toilets that had been in the park. “(This) is a great resource for all the sports leagues that meet at ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — There are six public restrooms that remain open in Vancouver as a part of the city’s effort to maintain access to facilities for people who are unhoused amid the coronavirus ...

Frederick Olmsted, the architect of New York’s Central Park, reputedly said: “The enjoyment of scenery employs the mind without fatigue and yet exercises it; tranquilizes it and yet enlivens it; and ...

After nearly a decade as the de facto CEO of Vancouver parks and recreational facilities, Malcolm Bromley will soon have a lot more time to make use of them. That's because the veteran municipal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The B.C. government has put forward legislation that would require the City of Vancouver to hold a referendum if it wants to try ...

For 135 years, residents have relied on elected members of the Vancouver Park Board to oversee everything from groundskeeping to the devastating moth infestation in Stanley Park to the tentative steps ...

The Vancouver park board plans to tweak its bylaws to allow e-bikes and electric kick scooters on designated cycling paths in park-controlled areas of the city. The proposed changes come as Vancouver ...

A Vancouver park board commissioner wants staff to study the impact and prospect of expanding the city’s disc golf scene. Commissioner Laura Christensen says the growth of disc golf in Vancouver comes ...

New restrictions on where and how the homeless can shelter in Vancouver parks were necessary, the city’s park board says, but some of those experiencing homelessness are calling the changes a misfire.

In Vancouver, parks are us, big-time. Unrivalled by any other Canadian jurisdiction, this city is blessed with an abundance of municipal, regional, and provincial parks, plus several wildlife ...